Where are the demands for McConnell Hancock to step down?

Jay Black resigns because he uses a fake name to call a local television talk segment. Ms. McConnell Hancock, lies because she claims she did not "pull rank" seems to get away with this and not one Democrat or Republican in office says she should resign?

It's not her driving with an expired license or plates that is the issue. The issue is how she handled the whole situation. Especially since she is not only an attorney but chairman of council's law and criminal justice committee and president pro tem of Toledo City Council.

At a minimum she should have stepped down from both her president pro tem and chairman of the law and criminal justice committee. Do we care about ethics in Toledo? Tom Noe was blasted on a daily basis for the coingate scandal, yet this is an elected official and I have not seen any demands from the media that she should step down either. Nor have I seen her hounded for comments, only she "could not be reached for comment." (With the exception of WSPD, as I have been told there has been statements on air concerning this)

From the released police video some of the comments she made (complete comments and videos available at above link from the Toledo Blade)

In the video, officers told Ms. McConnell Hancock, who twice identified herself as a public official, that they waited 30 minutes for her to return. They said they couldn't let her drive because of her expired license and plates.

"I don't give anybody else that courtesy on the street," Officer Brown said.

"But everybody else is not an elected official," Ms. McConnell Hancock replied.

One officer told the councilman that a woman on crutches using the crosswalk had to go around her car. The woman looked at the officers and pointed at the car because she was having trouble getting up the crosswalk.

"All I'm saying is I'm asking for the professional courtesy," she said.

"Well, that's all I was asking for when I walked across the street and asked you not to park there," the officer responded.

He said she could have parked in the reserved council spots and walked to court and "everything would have been fine."

"Most citizens would get their vehicle towed and because [Officer Brown] saw you driving, you would be getting a citation for both," an officer told Ms. McConnell Hancock.

"I do understand that. I'm just asking for professional courtesy. I understand all that," she said.

Sgt. Karen Sue Martensen offered to drive Ms. McConnell Hancock to a Madison Avenue location to renew her license and tags so she could then get her car out of impound.

The councilman asked if police would allow her to go into the parking garage and then do the renewals. Later, an officer told her that she "really put us in very, very touchy position."

The sergeant then told the councilman it's "ethics" and said that Mayor Jack Ford "is very, very firm on the ethics question and the whole process. We all sign ethics statements."

The councilman replied, "As do I."

And the clincher.....

"But, and, and I'm not being funny at all, but if I were to call Chief Navarre all of that would be negated. And I'm not trying to go that route at all. That's not what I want to do at all," Ms. McConnell Hancock said.

We deserve better than that. If ethics truly does matter to Mayor Ford he should demand she step down. So should every single Toledo Council Person that believes in ethics. So should the Blade and the Toledo Free Press and the rest of the media. This shouldn't be left to the voters to decide when she runs for re-election. I don't care if she's a democrat, republican, independent, white, black, yellow, or purple. This is exactly the type of behavior we don't need in politics and why people lose faith in our government.

No one is above the law.